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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



ment, with which she rubbed herself before them all, telling them 

 that this would render her invulnerable, and that now she could 

 subdue the universe. Immediately her subjects, seized with a 

 savage enthusiasm, massacred all their male children, and immense 

 quantities of this human ointment were made. 



Tembandumba wished to found an empire of Amazons, suclv as 

 we read of as existing among the Scythians, in the forests of 

 South America, and in Central Africa. She not only enjoined 



